Whittaker Chambers was originally born as Jay Vivian Chambers on April 1, 1901 (Whittaker, 2004). After graduating from high school, Chambers left his home on Long Island and worked as a construction worker replacing railroad tracks (Boston, 2011). After working on the railroad, Chambers decided to attend college. He attended Columbia University in New York between 1920 and 1924 (Boston, 2011). During his time at Columbia, Chambers became a very gifted writer. While attending Columbia, Chambers decided he wanted to try to become a poet; however, he realized that he could never “write poems good enough to be worth writing” (Boston, 2011). Realizing this, Chambers decided to focus his writing skills on more traditional methods. Unlike poetry, Chambers was very gifted at this type of writing. In 1924 Chambers began reading much of Vladimir Lenin's work (Chambers, 2013). Lenin's work was an inspiration to Chambers and he soon began to agree with Lenin's views and ideologies. For this reason, in 1925, he decided to join the Communist Party (Boston, 2011). After joining the Communist Party Chambers, he got his first job working for a communist newspaper: the Daily Worker (Tannenhaus, 1997). Chambers was a talented writer for the Daily Worker. During this time Chambers also served as an editor at The New Masses (Boston, 2011). After seeing how well Chambers did with these two jobs, he was asked to join the Communist Party underground (Boston, 2011). Chambers was asked to join the underground because he had studied at the Ivy League and was well connected with respected intellectuals, was very good at speaking other languages ​​and was already fluent in German, and he… halfway paper… .nger or disappear like Poyntz and leave his family alone. After Chambers left the party, he got a job at TIME Magazine as a book and film reviewer (Chambers, 2013). Chambers ultimately decided he wanted to expose the communist cell in the United States. This was very risky for Chambers; however, he wanted to help expose everyone involved in the Communist Party. While working clandestinely for the Soviets, Chambers recognized Alger-Hiss. Alger-Hiss worked for the US State Department and also worked for Soviet Russia. After hearing this news, Chambers met with Adolf Berle, a top aide in the Roosevelt administration (Chambers, 2013). However, Berle rejected Chambers' claim and decided that a politician like Hiss could not be involved in such espionage. Chambers accepted this and decided to leave the matter aside for a few years.